Math vs. Zombies (Mobile App)

 Math vs. Zombies is a fun math app that helps students use their super math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) to save the planet by getting rid of zombies! Students help change zombies back into kids by correctly answering math questions and "zapping" the zombie. There are seven levels in each of the four math operations, so students can stay actively engaged while practicing and honing their math skills. There are also three different difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard) so a wide variety of students can utilize this app. It is currently free and addictive!


Classroom Applications:
*math skills practice with the four basic operations
   (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)

Venn Diagram and Timeline App - Read Write Think

Venn Diagram is a graphic organizer app that allows students to organize their thinking and/or show their learning.  Users can add 2-3 overlapping circles to their Venn  

   Diagram.  The completed diagram can be saved to the Camera Roll. 

Classroom Applications:
Comparing and Contrasting
Share Facts Learned
Showing Relationships

 

Timeline is an app that allows students to display information in sequential order along a line. Click the timeline to add an event or item and then add a label, a description, and an optional image. The final timeline saves to the Camera Roll.



Classroom Applications:
Historical Data
Biographies
Sequence of Events (science lab, classroom activities, etc.)
Numberline

 Both of these apps were created by the International Reading Association/Read Write Think. They have other apps: Theme Poem, Diamante Poem, Acrostic Poem and Alphabet Organizer. Search the app store for International Reading Association. These tools are all also available online along with other student interactives.
 

30 Hands Mobile App

30 Hands is a storytelling app that allows students to use images to tell a story. They can take their own pictures from within the app, access the iPad camera roll or draw their own images. Students can then narrate over the images. You can delete and rearrange your images. The recording stops  between each slide allowing for more collaboration and planning. The final video will save to your camera roll. This is a tutorial made by 30 Hands - similar one is available inside the app.

Adapts easily to use as a "paper slide" video - students can still draw their images, then take pictures of them with the iPad, bring them into the app and narrate without some of the "shaky" videoing.

Classroom Applications:
Share Research/Facts
Student Writing/Publishing
Book Talks - book cover and draw pictures of favorite scenes in books
Share Classroom Activities/Events
Cause and Effect of Disasters (Flood, Tornadoes, Tsunamis)
Soil Science Lab Example 

Lesson Example: Inventor Gamis!

In this lesson, fifth grade students used the Tellagami iPad app to create “Inventor Gamis”!  The students researched and collected information about inventors and their inventions. Then, using the iPads and the Tellagami app, they each created a “gami” to share information about an inventor and invention.  

Enjoy a few of these examples!